por Ana Escarate | Nov 29, 2022 | Story-time
“Carbon fiber is a way to express the shape of our design so that we can create beautiful and rich lines for each product.» Horacio Pagani. Horacio understood the high potential of composite-material-based systems and, in particular, carbon fiber while making the...
por Ana Escarate | Nov 22, 2022 | Getting technical
In today’s aerospace industry, the consumption of composite materials has increased to more than 50%. Composite materials have been used in the aerospace industry in primary and secondary structural parts, including rocket motor casings, radomes, antenna dishes,...
por Ana Escarate | Nov 17, 2022 | Story-time
Corvette’s use of advanced materials began in 1953 when the first Corvettes were produced with all-fiberglass bodies. In fact, Chevrolet’s Corvette original 1953 Corvette was the first »mass-produced» automobile to use fiberglass-reinforced plastic parts. Every...
por Ana Escarate | Nov 15, 2022 | Getting technical
Resin infusion is a sophisticated technique for manufacturing high-performance, void-free composites even on large or complicated molds. In this manufacturing process, reinforcement is laid into the mold ‘‘dry’’, i.e. without any resin, and then enclosed in a...
por Ana Escarate | Nov 10, 2022 | Story-time
»July 20, 2019, marked the 50-year anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing. Though at the time the Apollo capsule was built, the composites industry was still in its infancy and the materials were not yet in widespread use, the Apollo capsule used early composite...
